“Pig Laws” unfairly penalized poor African Americans for crimes such as stealing a farm animal. And vagrancy statutes made it a crime to be unemployed. Many misdemeanors or trivial offenses ...

Enslaved African Americans could never forget ... In addition, slavery gave the farmers a group of people to feel superior to. They may have been poor, but they were not slaves, and they were ...

The disaster has revealed grave social problems. Majority of people who did not evacuate and died were poor African American residents living in the lower land without cars. Many evacuees stranded ...